US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 18 for "In-pipe localization of tools using time between signals" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,123, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"In-pipe localization of tools using time between signals" was invented by Mohammed H. Al-Sharif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Aljarro (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Khalid S. Ghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Salah A. Zahrani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed T. Abdulmohsin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimating location of features in a pipeline can be based on a device with two arrays axially spaced apart from each other by a distance. Measurements of signals from the first array and the second array of...